GeneDavis

I want to use the schedule for ONLY floor finish, but I want to be able to edit the material names. Is this possible? I looked around can cannot find anything.

I know, I know, closet built-ins are highly personalized. But cannot the same be said, even moreso, for kitchen storage? Or bathroom vanities? Here are a couple of pics snipped from a Zillow page, the larger room being a "her" closet, the other a "his." The arrangements done, are likely not high-end custom, but built using one of the many available kits of ready-to-assemble parts to achieve a hung-to-wall array of modules for hanger bars, shelves, drawers, shoe shelves, laundry basket tilt-outs, and more. Because there is a single separator "gable" or "partition" between the various modules, you build these in Chief with frameless settings, doing every odd one, and filling between with the shelf tool, then popping the rods as symbols, stretched to fit. Arrangments like this can cost up to 25 grand per large walk-in, and somewhere along the line between foundation and final walkthrough, something needs to be put on paper to describe the specifics. Are you doing any of these?

Thanks, @VHampton. It was right there and I never saw it. Somewhere, buried in the "what's new in X16" information, there had to have been a mention. Before posting this question, I searched the training videos and webinar videos for this and did not find anything. But, hey, look! Search the Chief website for "edit newel" and up comes just what I missed, from a year ago. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03195/manually-adjusting-newel-posts.html

I've a need for this right now.

Here is a guy with a couple hundred hours of Revit tutorials on YouTube, and it's about an hour of him showing and discussing detailing. It's worth watching just the first dozen minutes or so, in which he is comparing annotation by manual text and arrow entry, vs doing it using the "I" in Revit's BIM, meaning information. He explains it using a roof edge detail, two of them that appear identical, one done with all the anno done "manually", the other with "I". Since the detail is live from the 3D model, and all elements are modeled and built with information, i.e., their ID "names", and the model knows the sizings, one can extract that info in doing some kind of Revit auto anno callouts, which then require just the manual placement of the arrow. Heck, I just wish we had the auto lines for cutting away the unneeded runaways, by which I mean the line-z-line thing we use to chop. It's tedious in Chief to have to do all the masking and duplicating in CAD to achieve what is done in Revit automatically, without even needing a click.

I wondered what Revit detailing might be like, and the first thing that popped up for me on YouTube was this. Pretty good stuff. Makes me want to ask Chief for some mods.

Thanks to those of you that looked and commented here. I contacted tech support and got walked through some system settings that seems to have solved the problem. You don't simply install Xnew whatever and all works well graphically. I needed to go to System > Display > Graphics and add X16, which had not been done by me when installing X16. In the screen cap, attached, you can see X15 as an installed app, and X16 below it. When I opened this up during the tech call, X16 was not there. I installed it, and now all seems well. Or so far, all seems well.

If you are on X16 with this card and problem free, tell me your driver ID please.

@Renerabbitthow'd you do dat? Don't be the magician with secrets. Your wall build included the top trim horizontal batten, and a base band.

@PitMan71 material region is the preferred way and this has been discussed in earlier threads. Do a search and find some. Then try it yourself. What is nice is that copy and repeat horizontally across an elevation places the battens quickly and trims them to gable lines and above and below all window and door openings.

I've found that lookouts only frame correctly when autoframed. They are a special kind of rafter and cannot be properly drawn manually. Maybe time to suggest a program enhancement, no?

It seems the OP has left the building.

Please take the time to learn to manually edit roof planes. And the best mode for editing is 3D perspective overview, color off, vector off, toggle patterns off. Like this. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/5447/roof-basics.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/728/locating-roof-plane-intersections.html https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1500/the-dialogs-that-influence-roof-design.html

Sounds like you want the house roof to tee into the garage roof, with both having same ridge height. If pitch can vary, just decide whether you want the common ridge elevation to be that which the house has, or the garage. Then for the roof that you'll change, open it for spec, lock fascia height, and change its ridge to match the other ridge in height. It's easy and takes just seconds. Show us your result.

Describe "go into."